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Lessons from Kronavirus: Is Sweden's anti-lockdown approach more strategic?

Scott Young
Maclean's
Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Every afternoon, I look up from my home office to watch a group of shrieking kids descend on our local playground. It is a daily reminder my pandemic is not like your pandemic. As a Canadian who relocated recently to Malmö, Sweden, I arrived just in time to witness Sweden's COVID-19 response firsthand. I live in one of the few places in the world where playgrounds, parks, restaurants and bars never closed.

It is a striking dissonance from Toronto, where I lived until recently, and B.C.'s Lower Mainland, where I grew up. The photographs of deserted streets I am intimately familiar with — Little Italy in Toronto, Gastown in Vancouver — feel as though they are pulled from a nightmare, one my friends and family are all trapped in. While they endure lockdowns, snitch lines and overzealous bylaw enforcement — remember the Ottawa teenager or the new mom in Aurora, Ont., fined hundreds of dollars for shooting hoops or lingering a few seconds too long in a park — my daily life has carried on unimpeded. In the past week, I got a bad haircut, went to the gym, and met friends for lunch, all without fear of censure.

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UK cannabis farm bought by US-based fund in $81 million deal

The Guardian
Fri, 15 May 2020 16:59 UTC

A British cannabis producer has been acquired by a US-based private equity fund in a multimillion pound deal which some say could accelerate the legalisation of the recreational drug in the UK.

Bridge Farm, a horticulture company based in Lincolnshire, has been acquired by Artemis Growth Partners for about $81m (£66m). The fund's partners, many of whom are former Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan executives, has a large portfolio of companies that sell and advocate the use of cannabis for a number of different purposes including for medicinal use.

Announcing the deal, Artemis said it expected the huge financial pressures on governments around the world after the coronavirus pandemic could see cannabis legalised to make it taxable.

Comment: This is emblematic of the UK: it's one of the world's leading producers of a plant that it criminalizes its own citizens for possessing. Whilst the debate around cannabis use is nuanced, and it certainly would benefit the establishment to sedate and tax the segment of the population that would use it, the medicinal merits in the use of cannabis over a whole host of other, legal, patented, pharmacological drugs, as well as a citizens right to choose, is undeniable:

Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Highs and Lows of Cannabis as Medicine

New Zealand schools to teach pupils to avoid dairy and meat

Elizabeth Schroeder
Farmers Weekly
Thu, 14 May 2020 14:02 UTC

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Farmers in New Zealand are up in arms about a new school curriculum that encourages learners to avoid eating dairy and meat.

New Zealand has implemented a new climate change curriculum in schools that advises learners to avoid consuming dairy and meat.

According to Reuters, this curriculum has been heavily criticised by the agriculture community in New Zealand, with agricultural commodities accounting for 60% of the country's exports.

Farmers in New Zealand said they felt targeted by the new curriculum, which amplified their frustrations as the government pushed for a reduction of carbon emissions to achieve the country's goal to become carbon-neutral by 2050.

The curriculum blamed agriculture for being a leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions and therefore advised students to avoid consuming dairy and meat.

Comment: Agriculture includes vegetables, and vegetarian diets promote the worst ecosystem destruction of them all, so this curriculum is not based on fact - it's based on ideology, pushed by big business.

Comment: Children are worrying about what the propaganda media and its puppets, like Greta Thunberg, are telling them to be worried about. Moreover, removing the essential sustenance found in meat from a growing child's diet will result in a dramatic decline in their health, and potentially, in irreversible damage:

Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: 19 January 2015 -- The Vegetarian Myth

Jonathan Sumption: 'You cannot imprison an entire population'

Jonathan Sumption
The Spectator
Sun, 17 May 2020 11:00 UTC

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The current rationale for the lockdown is incoherent. The old rationale was: 'you must spread the infections over a longer period so as to allow the NHS to catch up'. So that was why there was the slogan 'Save the NHS'. Well, they've dropped that part of the slogan - and for good reasons. Currently, the NHS has more than doubled its intensive care capacity. It's an impressive achievement by the government. But they need to follow the logic of it. The crucial fact is that [the government's] paper accepts that Covid-19 is going to be with us long term. That is the likely outcome. And it's consistent with the science. Once the a virus has taken hold in a population, it doesn't just go away until enough people have been exposed to the disease to acquire immunity or a vaccine turns up. So when the lockdown ends, whenever that is, the virus will still be there waiting for us.

More than nine tenths of the deaths are cases in which the death certificate shows that there were multiple causes of death: Coronavirus was only one of them. This is a virus that attacks people with really serious pre-existing vulnerabilities. Almost all of these people are very old and suffering from conditions serious enough to be mentioned as a cause of death on the certificate. The overwhelming majority would have died. A bit later, but not much later.

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Italian lawmaker demands Bill Gates arrest for crimes against humanity

Great Game India
Sun, 17 May 2020 00:01 UTC

Days after it was revealed in an intercepted human intelligence report that Bill Gates offered $10 million bribe for a forced Coronavirus vaccination program in Nigeria, now an Italian politician has demanded the arrest of Bill Gates in the Italian parliament. Sara Cunial, the Member of Parliament for Rome denounced Bill Gates as a "vaccine criminal" and urged the Italian President to hand him over to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. She also exposed Bill Gates' agenda in India and Africa, along with the plans to chip the human race through the digital identification program ID2020.

As reported by GreatGameIndia earlier, in 2015 it were the Italians who exposed secret Chinese biological experiments with Coronavirus. The video, which was broadcast in November, 2015, showed how Chinese scientists were doing biological experiments on a SARS connected virus believed to be Coronavirus, derived from bats and mice, asking whether it was worth the risk in order to be able to modify the virus for compatibility with human organisms.

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YouTube censors epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski for opposing lockdown

Jon Levine
New York Post
Sat, 16 May 2020 13:10 UTC

Big Tech companies are aggressively tamping down on COVID-19 "misinformation" — opinions and ideas contrary to official pronouncements.

Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, former head of biostatistics, epidemiology and research design at Rockefeller University, says YouTube removed a video of him talking about the virus which had racked up more than 1.3 million views.

Wittkowski, 65, is a ferocious critic of the nation's current steps to fight the coronavirus. He has derided social distancing, saying it only prolongs the virus' existence and has attacked the current lockdown as mostly unnecessary.

Comment: Dr. Wittkowski was also featured in the second installment of the infamous article series 'Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic' on OffGuardian.

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Lives vs lives - The global cost of lockdown

Jayanta Bhattacharya & Mikko Packalen
The Spectator
Sat, 16 May 2020 00:01 UTC

Policies that depress the world economy put millions at risk

'There have been as many plagues in history as there have been wars,' wrote Albert Camus in The Plague, 'yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.' So it was this time. The arrival of a new coronavirus blindsided governments of most advanced nations as they reached for a tool that few had ever really considered before: lockdown. It all happened too fast for a proper discussion about the implications. The biggest question — the extent to which lockdown will claim lives as well as save them — is one you can ask at a global level.

We know the national costs. In the United States, there is joblessness on a scale not seen since the Great Depression, with more than 33 million unemployed. The Bank of England forecasts the UK economy will fall by 14 per cent this year — the steepest decline since 1706. Similar trends can be found across the industrial world. The global economy is veering toward an economic depression not seen for generations.

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The US is caught in an economic death spiral, and one group is being hit particularly hard...

Micheal Snyder
The Economic
Thu, 14 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Many have been warning for years that our economic bubble would eventually burst and that a collapse was inevitably coming, but the ferocity of this new economic crisis has caught just about everyone off guard. And even though some states have been attempting to "reopen" their economies in recent days, the job loss tsunami just continues to roll on. Prior to this year, the all-time record for the most new unemployment claims in a single week was 695,000. That record was set all the way back in 1982, and it had survived all the way until 2020. But now we have been absolutely dwarfing that number week after week. On Thursday, we learned that another 2.9 million Americans filed initial claims for unemployment benefits last week, and that brings the grand total for this pandemic to more than 36 million...

New filings for unemployment claims totaled just shy of 3 million for the most recent reporting period, a number that while still high declined for the sixth straight week, according to Labor Department figures Thursday.

The total 2.981 million new claims for unemployment insurance filed last week brought the coronavirus crisis total to nearly 36.5 million, by far the biggest loss in U.S. history. The count announced last week count was revised up by 7,000 to 3.176 million, putting the weekly decline at 195,000 between the two most recent reports.

Why have they only just noticed the carnage in care homes?

spiked-online.com
Sun, 17 May 2020 23:23 UTC

Care homes are now the epicentre of the Covid-19 epidemic. Figures from the ONS show that 40 per cent of all coronavirus deaths so far occurred in care homes.

Finally, politicians and the press are starting to wake up to the fact that the official guidance on care homes was fundamentally flawed.

In this week's Prime Minister's Questions, Keir Starmer quoted old government advice that suggested that care-home infections were 'very unlikely'. Starmer also quoted a cardiologist:

'We discharged known, suspected and unknown cases into care homes which were unprepared with no formal warning that patients were infected, no testing available and no PPE to prevent transmission. We actively seeded this into the very population that was most vulnerable.'

Indeed, NHS guidance made it explicit that patients should be discharged to care homes in order to free up hospital capacity for an anticipated surge in cases.

Comment: Why have they only just noticed what we warned would happen? Because they don't care.

The most vulnerable are always the ones that end up suffering most. It's a tragic but all too natural consequence of leaders making decisions and enacting policy that pay lip service to helping people but are always done with other agendas and goals in mind.

South Africa proposes alcohol rationing based on surnames as it eases draconian lockdown

RT
Sun, 17 May 2020 20:26 UTC

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FILE PHOTO: A shopper carries a box of alcohol ahead of a nationwide lockdown in Johannesburg, South Africa.

South Africa, which has some of the toughest Covid-19 restrictions, is set to relax them, including a ban on alcohol sales. To avert a feared onslaught of booze buyers, retailers are proposing what seems an outlandish scheme.

Alcohol is expected to rain on the arid market of South Africa from June 1, when the government is set to partially lift its coronavirus-related restrictions. The blanket ban on alcohol and tobacco sales was implemented late in March.

The government draft plan would allow liquor stores to operate from Monday to Wednesday between 8am and 12pm. Retailers, however, fear that the stores might get swarmed (and, potentially, ransacked) by parched and angry clients.

Comment: What did a blanket ban on alcohol and tobacco have to do with the coronavirus farce?

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Society's Child

Lessons from Kronavirus: Is Sweden's anti-lockdown approach more strategic?

UK cannabis farm bought by US-based fund in $81 million deal

New Zealand schools to teach pupils to avoid dairy and meat

Jonathan Sumption: 'You cannot imprison an entire population'

Italian lawmaker demands Bill Gates arrest for crimes against humanity

YouTube censors epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski for opposing lockdown

Lives vs lives - The global cost of lockdown

The US is caught in an economic death spiral, and one group is being hit particularly hard...

Why have they only just noticed the carnage in care homes?

South Africa proposes alcohol rationing based on surnames as it eases draconian lockdown

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